Interesting. What’s the incentive to link to another site to form a webring?
Feels like it helps with discoverability in a time when search wasn’t huge yet right?
This is what webrings are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I'm using the graph theory concept of cliques to try to build webrings in nostr:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_(graph_theory)
It's easy to identify cliques in the nostr social graph and to do that within the subset of users who have a website in their profile. Then if all of the websites in a clique start to link to each other, a decentralized webring can emerge.
Discussion
In their heyday, webrings provided discoverability for groups of topical websites but also facilitated social aspects of the web before social media provided easy access to social graphs.
Today, there is increasing disillusionment with the proliferation of low effort posting that social media encourages. In dark corners of the internet, unenlightened by social media, there is an interest in creating decentralized webrings, and nostr seems to be to be a good way to get that started.
